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Pic of the week game

That was easier than anticipated...

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Spyder said:
The "Spyder phone", lol... The iPhone 6S does have a decent camera... Great pictures so far. I have one buried somewhere. I will have to go digging for it...
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I realized after posting that that my entry this week was taken on my old Samsung. I downloaded it onto the iPhone for editing in which I was able to both bring up the color in the sky and lighten up the foreground.

This age of having photos stored in multiple locations gets a bit cumbersome.
 
Rich82GS750TZ said:
Imgur has some half-decent editing tools for a free photo hosting site. I used the orientation button........
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I used Paint.Net :
Increase the canvas size, then rotate some (4.5 degrees in this case), then crop.
THen copy some pixles to fill in the corners.

Here is original, then the rotated, then the final
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<this is not an entry>
 
Baatfam said:
......... Everyone is pulling out the stops this time. ............
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Is that a pun....?


I know that "pulling out the stops" is a saying based on playing an organ using all its various sounds.
But could be something of a pun relative to photography, f/stops, aperture settings.
Opps, showing my age here. (My first camera, mid 60s, was an early 1950s Agfa, all manual, didn't even have a light meter.)
 
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Imgur was much easier. As soon as you start to rotate, a grid is superimposed on the image, making leveling the horizon or any other reference point very easy. Depending on how much or little you rotate the image, the image automatically enlarges so as not to make empty corners, and no pixel-filling-in required. However, In the case of your image, Dave, that means it may have resulted in me trimming the rear tire and putting the front tire right at the bottom edge. This is a photo faux pas akin to cutting off fingers or toes in a portrait. Your method allowed you to keep both tires well off the very bottom.
 
Redman said:
Is that a pun....?


I know that "pulling out the stops" is a saying based on playing an organ using all its various sounds.
But could be something of a pun relative to photography, f/stops.
Opps, showing my age here.
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LOL...Thanks Dave! You make me laugh...

The original meaning was my intent, but I like your take...f/stops...very valuable at dusk...LOL!!!:D
 
Stops vs. Stops;). I took photography courses in the early 90s. The camera requirement was fully manual, and use of a separate light meter was required. I used a Pentax K1000.
 
dorkburger said:
Stops vs. Stops;). I took photography courses in the early 90s. The camera requirement was fully manual, and use of a separate light meter was required. I used a Pentax K1000.
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I still do a lot of manual shooting. I sometimes tend to use old, manual, Canon FD lenses on my modern Panasonic bodies. I think the pictures look lovely...
 
Steve is this near where you live? Never been to Lake Ontario. Next time I go around the Great Lakes.....
 
Soooooo. I kind of got carried away with photo editing... hopefully everyone is OK with it..... It's certainly not meant to be a critique of the pics, just my playing and learning what I can edit and how. Playing with Trevor's, Sandy's , and Vince's pictures made no appreciable difference.

Spyder?s bike by Glen Brenner, on Flickr

http://Dave?s bike by Glen Brenner, on Flickr

http://Kerry?s bike by Glen Brenner, on Flickr

http://Roger?s bike by Glen Brenner, on Flickr

http://Steve?s CBX by Glen Brenner, on Flickr
 
OK, I finally have time for a last-minute entry.

This is along Great Sacandaga Lake in New York. I had stopped for some pictures of the bike, then noticed I had been photo-bombed.

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dorkburger said:
Soooooo. I kind of got carried away with photo editing... hopefully everyone is OK with it..... .

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http://Dave’s bike by Glen Brenner, .
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Wow, what an improvement for the overall general appeal of the photo.
Although looks less like dusk (low light) situation.

No offence. I can fully understand you doing that as a personal challenge, something of your hobby fun.

Say, if you want a photo editing challenge: Take out the chain link fence that is behind the bike. I have taken out the fence's posts and the the top rail (using the clone brush tool of Paint dot Net).

In fact, when I posed the pic I had to limit my position such that the fence top rail was not in front of the water because I knew that would be difficult to edit out, so I kept the top rail in the dune grass as much as I could. Off to the left, the fence top rail did go over the river channel some, but I covered it with dune grass anyway.

Maybe I should not be divulging this. Might make all my pictures suspect har har har

Interesting that I dont mess with the color-brightness. TO me that should be done at the time the exposure is make, that is photography. If edit the color-brightness later, that is not photography skill, that is photoediting-computer-software skill.
But yet, I do not hesitate much to use photo editing skills to, say, remove some distracting thing like a trash can or a utility pole guy wire that there was no way to avoid when posing the photo.
 
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Redman said:
Interesting that I dont mess with the color-brightness. TO me that should be done at the time the exposure is make, that is photography. If edit the color-brightness later, that is not photography skill, that is photoediting-computer-software skill.
But yet, I do not hesitate much to use photo editing skills to, say, remove some distracting thing like a trash can or a utility pole guy wire that there was no way to avoid when posing the photo.
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Interesting thoughts, Dave.

I find the two are so intertwined as to be part of the same.

The difficulty is that our eyes are so much better at seeing a wide range of light and color, than our camera sensors, or film. So photography becomes a way to convey the beauty our eyes see, in a medium that can't show it. In the past with film, they did similar tricks in the dark room, which I am sure you know, to light, or darken, parts or all of the photo.

Now we do it digitally. But when taking a picture, you sometimes have to work with less than ideal light, knowing you can fix something later.
Highlights that are overexposed are hard to fix, but blacks that are underexposed can often be fixed. So, when trying to get the widest range of color and light, (gamut), I try for the darker side....

Sometimes it is best to take two or more images. One exposed for the sky, and one exposed for the foreground, and then you combine them to increase your range of light.

The one thing that is very hard to fix is bad composition. Sometimes you can save it with a crop, but not always.

I may try to remove your fence over the weekend, but I think it is beyond my talent level.

Hey, is it voting day?
 
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